Mikhail Loris-Melikov

Mikhail Loris-Melikov (1 January 1826-22 December 1888) was Minister of the Interior of the Russian Empire from 1880 to 1881, succeeding Lev Makov and preceding Nikolay Ignatyev.

Biography
Mikhail Loris-Melikov was born in Tiflis, Russian Empire on 1 January 1826, and he joined a hussar regiment of the Imperial Russian Army in 1843. He served in the Caucasus from 1847 until the late 1860s, and he became a distinguished cavalry officer and an able administrator. Loris-Melikov commanded a corps during the war with the Ottoman Empire from 1877 to 1878, invading Asia Minor through the Caucasus. He was later sent to become Governor-General of Lower Volga, where he was tasked with suppressing the Nihilists and anarchists, who had killed the Governor of Kharkov. In 1880, he became Minister of the Interior, and he proposed that Czar Alexander II of Russia establish a council for reform in 1881. The scheme of reforms was never carried out, as Alexander was assassinated before this could happen. As Czar Alexander III of Russia began to reverse his father's reforms, Loris-Melikov resigned, and he died in Nice, France in 1888.